Xbox 360 games on a PC?

Was reading up on it, and heard a few people say it's possible with an emulator <-- No idea how to use one, and some people say it isn't possible.

Is it possible? And is it legal? (If it's illegal, if a Mod would delete this post, that would be cool).


If it is legit, and it is possible, does anyone have like a newbie step-by-step instructions on where to get it, how to use it, etc etc.

I have a feeling that even if it DOES work, it wont be the same, like it will look a lot different, and generally be a lot of trouble to configure and set up.

Thanks guys.


Edit: Heading to bed, will check on post tomorrow.

 

I haven't looked for an Xbox360 before, but a few simple things about emulators.

Firtly, they are NOT illegal to use, downloading the games to use on them is illegal, if you're simply using the disk in your drive, or copied your own legally owned disk to the hard drive, that's legal as long as it's for personal use and you aren't profiting from it.

As an old general rule, your hardware must be 10x faster than the hardware your emulating. Currently most desktop computers don't even have the the kind of power that the Xbox360's CPU has, it has a triple core 3.2GHz CPU. It would take ALOT to emulate that efficiently.

so going by this logic alone, there might be an emulator created for the Xbox360, but there's NO way it would run any game at more than 1FPS..

 

Hi.

you would need a really powerfull pc to emulate a 360, it has 3 x 3.2ghz cores
Regards

John.

 

I do not see why anyone would want to emulate a 360 either- helpful hint- most of the Xbox360 "exclusives" make it onto PC anyway....

 

any modern core 2 duo above 2ghz is going to be comparable to the xbox 360 by about a factor of 1:1. as unknown says, you need about 10:1 for emulation.

desktop cpu's are just now getting fast enough to emulate the ps2 above 30 frames per second.

 

as rushmeat said.. only a few games didnt make it to PC.

 

I would like to play forza on a pC though. There is a lack of good real car realistic games on a PC. consoles have GranTurismo, Forza now midnight club.

 

ever heard of GTR 2 or RACE 07?

Anyways I don't think there's even a good emulator for the original Xbox, let alone the Xbox360.

 

yeah they are good games but I m getting bored with driving touring cars. I just wanna get into an RX8 and drive around a track.

 

Race Driver: Grid was good, i loved it

 

GRiD!!!! (And MAYBE, just MAYBE the NFS series this year...)

 

Rushmeat from what ive seen, many people gave NFS undercover 1/10, and professional REviewing sites gave the game under 5/10 :S i have a thread about this already

 

Yah, I just saw it sadly... Metacritic has a rating of 5.8 right now... Too bad... Poor NFS, I'll still buy a copy, I love racing games... (But not till its used and cheap...) I wish that they would go back to a time when the games were well... good.

 

I want to tell something about the status of console emulation on the PC. The progress is so slow that only some PS2 games have been emulated on the PC using PCSX2. Even then games like GTA: Vice City stories which run fluently on the PS2 lag horribly on a PC having Quad Core CPU and a 8800 GTX GPU. You can very well estimate the condition of XBox 360 emulators. Maybe in 2020.